The clearest divide comes off as between mental health practitioners and researchers.
The general public, too, has a belief in repressed memory.
Clearly, more research is needed in the area of memory.
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Scientists are studying this, and we are beginning to understand how this occurs.
Memoryis not like a tape recorder.
The brain processes information and stores it in different ways.
There is much debate surrounding this question.
There is some research suggesting that false memories for mild trauma can be created in the laboratory.
In one study, suggestions were made that children had been lost in a shopping mall.
Many of the children later came to believe that this was a real memory.
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